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'I destroyed my life': Ex-Navy SEAL Kristin Beck who underwent gender change says he's transitioning BACK

'This is a billion-dollar industry between psychologists, between surgeries, between hormones, between chemicals, between follow-up treatments,' said Kristen Beck

WASHINGTON, DC: Retired Navy SEAL Kristin Beck, who made headlines almost a decade ago after transitioning from a man to a woman, has now decided to switch back to the sex of his birth. He has also slammed the transgender health services, urging America to "wake up." Beck is now detransitioning and reverting to his previous name Chris Beck claiming that his sex change "destroyed my life". Moreover, he slammed his 2014 interview with CNN where he claims he was being used for propaganda.

Reflecting on the past, the 55-year-old ex-Navy SEAL told Robby Starbuck on his podcast about an interview he gave to CNN in June 2013 when he appeared on Anderson Cooper's show talking about his transitioning to a woman. He told Starbuck, "Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it. Everything that happened to me for the last 10 years destroyed my life. I destroyed my life. I'm not a victim. I did this to myself, but I had help. I take full responsibility. I went on CNN and everything else, and that's why I'm here right now. I'm trying to correct that. I was used … I was very naive, I was in a really bad way and I got taken advantage of. I got propagandized. I got used badly by a lot of people who had knowledge way beyond me. They knew what they were doing. I didn't." Beck also revealed that he has not taken the hormones for around seven years.

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Who is Kristin Beck?

Born on June 21, 1966, Christopher Todd Beck is a retired United States Navy SEAL whose claim to fame was coming out as a trans woman. He published a memoir in June 2013 titled 'Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender'. Beck was deployed 13 times and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service. Along the way, Beck earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Beck retired from the Navy in 2011 with the final rating as Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator. He began his hormone therapy in 2013. However, in December 2022, he announced his detransitioning and claimed that the related services are intertwined leading to a billion-dollar business. 

Now, he also believes that transgender health services are hurting children. He continued, "There are thousands of gender clinics being put up over all of America. As soon as [kids] go in and say, 'I'm a tomboy' or 'This makes me feel comfortable,' and then a psychologist says, 'Oh, you're transgender.' And then the next day, you're on hormones – the same hormones they are using for medical castration for pedophiles. Now, they are giving this to healthy 13-year-olds. Does this seem right? This is why I am trying to tell America to wake up. This is a billion-dollar industry between psychologists, between surgeries, between hormones, between chemicals, between follow-up treatments. There are thousands of gender clinics popping up all over our country. And each of those gender clinics is going to be pulling in probably over $50 million."